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こんにちは、Finnです。この本を理解するお手伝いをします。
10歳の子に説明するように言うと、こうなります：
Tom Sawyer は学校や教会に座っているより、釣りをしたり、頭の中で海賊と戦ったり、宝探しをしたりするほうが好きです。友だちをだまして、塀のペンキ塗りを楽しそうに見せてお金をもらい、夜の墓場で危険な出来事を目撃し、洞窟で迷子になります。音量を最大にした少年時代の物語です。
本の全文は英語で読みます。すべての章はこちらです：
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
The Author.
Hartford, 1876.